barbarian list

[Quintus Aurelius Lepidus]

is there something like a 'barbarian's list'?

a list (or lists) which lists the names of all tribes of celts, germanics, dacians, scythians, celtiberians, thracians... in europe

and i don't mean the ones on Wikipedia. i hope there is something much more better than this.

[M. Demetrius]

To get a better answer (or any answer, really) you might narrow the scope down to just a couple of centuries. Some tribes/cultures were wiped out, some moved and were assimilated, others just faded away, some changed their names as we know them. Just sayin'

[Quintus Aurelius Lepidus]

let us say: from 400 BC to 100 AD (from the invasions of the celts in italy and Greece till the mons graupius campaign).

i want to use it as some sort of reference for any future books i read on barbarians.

[jkaler48]

You should look for maps with the tribes/ people annotated. I remember seeing various similar maps.
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[M. Demetrius]

...and that's just the area now known as UK. Imagine how many tribes, subtribes, etc were in modern France!

[DECIMvS MERCATIvS VARIANvS]

john, where did you find that map?? mile:

[Flavivs Aetivs]

http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/maps.html

This is a good site. His late Roman maps need a little work though.

[Nathan Ross]

This one's quite fun as well:

Euratlas Periodis map

Click on the list of 'tribes' at the bottom and it shows you their approximate geographical position - there are other maps for succeeding centuries on the left menu bar.

However, all of these maps and lists are problematic. The majority of 'barbarian' peoples, especially the smaller groups, are known only from a single mention, on an inscription or in a list of other names. We don't know accurate these names might be, or if they were nicknames or alternative designations for more familiar peoples. For example, on the map of Britain above we find the 'Corionototae' near Hadrian's wall - this lot are known only from a single inscription mentioning the defeat of a group of them. But the name could mean 'big warband' or something similar in the native language, and the group could have comprised members of other tribes. We just don't know enough to be sure about the majority of peoples outside the Roman borders.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

I've used this for later eras, Euratlas is great.

[jkaler48]

john, where did you find that map?? mile:

Google searched "Europe tribal map"